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littlecakes
@littlecakes
chris burden commercial spot excerpts from his performance titled "through the night softly" of himself wriggling forward with his hands tied behind his back on broken glass in 1973 aired for 10 seconds, 5 times a week, for four weeks on local los angeles television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqyYVujl9AI
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Lucy Benson
@lucybenson
so good! so much performance art exploring tv and mass audiences from this era, but never seen this before
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Lucy Benson
@lucybenson
interesting to think about tv as this relatively new mainstream mass audience technology. just established enough that it was accessible (cheap) to be explored by young artists - who were the first generation to grow up with it.
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littlecakes
@littlecakes
oh good, glad to connect you to it i always thought that the glass looked like twinkling stars against a dark night sky for some reason and how ironic that is ✨
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